The threat of consent

What is the biggest concern facing South Asia over the next decade? Ritika Arora-Kukreja — winner of the LSE South Asia Centre Vera Anstey Essay Competition 2021 — argues that macroeconomic indicators, unemployment, illiteracy, poverty, and the alarming challenges surfacing across the region are no longer the only challenges we should be cognisant of; rather, the unspoken consent citizens ascribe every time they justify the contentious incidents unfolding in their nations is perhaps the novel, fundamental challenge we ought to further scrutinise.